ENVIRONMENT

Companies across the globe are pledging to fight against climate change by transitioning to renewable energy.

Researchers found an area double the size of North Yorkshire can be saved by lifting the ban on pigswill.

Tangier Islands will be submerged beneath the sea within 100 years if sea level rises at current rate.

Nations continue to push for international agreement to limit global warming as end of COP21 looms.

Researchers discover volcanic activity hidden beneath icy surface of Antarctica.

Pics taken a day or two apart show Cumbrian towns during the flooding, and after the water had receded.

The businessman behind brands North Face and Esprit, died of acute hypothermia after falling into a lake.

Prominent academics agreed to cast doubt on global warming in exchange for money from oil and coal industry.

The Liberal Democrat Leader was himself stranded on 6 December due to the flooding.

Environmental campaigners have built a self-sufficient squat camp called Grow Heathrow in the village of Sipson.

A grey soupy haze shrouds Beijing's landmarks as the Chinese capital issues first red alert.

Film star and former California governor also said the focus needed to be on new technology.

Arsenic-contaminated water if consumed over a long period of time can cause chronic diseases.

Hollywood star said ignore the naysayers who say a global deal is out of reach.

Global carbon emissions expected to decline by 0.6% thanks primarily to China.

The world's most active volcano, on the island of Sicily, has been putting on an impressive display.

Google, Facebook, Twitter and others pitch in to assist with the floods that have killed nearly 300 in south India.

Authorities shut schools and restrict traffic and industrial production amid dangerous haze levels.

Plying of all types of vehicles will be restricted in world's most polluted city.

Soldiers, sea rescue workers, firefighters and mountain rescue teams working day and night.

Storm Desmond dumped record levels of rain on Cumbria and the Scottish Borders.

Greenhouse gas emissions may have fallen in 2015, scientists are expected to say tomorrow.

UK's Environment Agency has issued 130 flood warnings across Britain.

Erik the Red's colonisation of Greenland did not come to an end because of global cooling.

The Farm 51 has designed an app that will give people the chance to tour Pripyat in virtual reality.

Water shortages caused by the current drought are set to hit animals harshly in the country's celebrated parks.

India expected to become biggest importer of coal in the world by 2020.

Winners of an aerial photography contest launched by Dronestagram, the Instagram for drones.

Beautiful photos of glaciers in Patagonia, which are receding at a faster rate than anywhere else on Earth.